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Chapter 6The Great Gatsby

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When does James Gatz change his name?

• He changes his name when he meets the millionaire, Dan Cody.

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Why does he make this change?

• He knows this is the chance he has been waiting for to change his life, and he wants to put his new image of himself forward.

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What is Daisy’s real response to the party, according to Nick?

• She was offended by it’s vulgarity.

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What does Gatsby tell Nick he wants Daisy to do?

• Gatsby wants Daisy to tell Tom she never loved him.

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• How is the comparison of Gatsby with Christ (“he was a son of God…and he must be about his Father’s business’) ironic?

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• Gatsby is completely in contrast with the ideals of Christ.

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• If the comparison with Christ were to continue throughout the book, what would happen to Gatsby?

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• He would be betrayed by his friend and killed.

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What is Gatsby’s view of the past?

• He thinks the past can be repeated.

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• When Nick says that Gatsby “wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy,” what do you think he means?

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• It is difficult to say exactly what Gatsby wants to recover-perhaps innocence, an integrity of his dream which, because it now rests with Daisy, is in danger of being destroyed.

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• At the end of the chapter, Nick describes Gatsby kissing Daisy in Louisville five years before. What is Gatsby giving up when he kisses her?

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• He gives up the freedom of purely dreaming.

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Why?

• He knows that “his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.”